Clothes-drier.



- CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1-905.

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UNIT D STATES CHARLES NOBLE, OF OREGON, ILLINOIS, AssIeNoR or- ONE-HALFTO CHARLES F. ESHBAUGH, or onneoiv, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed June 22,1905. Serial No. 266,373.

To aZZ whom/it may concern:

Be-it known that 1, CHARLES NOBLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oregon, in the county of Ogle andState of Illinoisy haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of whichthe followingris aspeciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in a device for suspendingclothes or other articleswhile drying, and more especially to that classofsuch devices in which a series of arms are pivoted to a bracket orsupport in such manner that they may be turned into different angles orwhen not needed folded one above the other against the wall or supportto which the bracket is secured; and it consists in certainpeculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation ofthe various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forthand specifically claimed.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a clothes drier orrack of the above named character which shall be simple and inexpensivein construction, strong, durable, and effective in operation, and somade that the parts may be easily assembled or readily detached. Otherobjects and advantages of the invention will be disclosed in thesubjoined description and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionpertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it,referring to the accompanying drawings, in 'which Figure 1 is a view infront elevation of a clothes-drier embodying my invention, showing oneof the clothes or garment supporting arms secured in one of the pivotedsocketpieces and turned to one side of the bracket and also illustratinganother one of the socket-pieces turned in the opposite direction, butshowing the remaining socketpieces extended forwardly and with the armsremoved. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view through the bracketand socket-pieces, illustrating a portion of one of the arms in place inone of said sockets. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the bracket and one ofthe socket-pieces with the supporting-arm removed. Fig. 1 is a plan viewof the inner end of one of the supporting-arms, and Fig. 5 is a view inside elevation of a like part.

sponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings.-

The reference-numeral l0 designates a Like numerals ofreference' referto corret-' bracket or support which may bemade "ofany suitablesizeyforin and ma'terialjbut 1 preferably substantially rectangular inshape and of-metal; Each'endof'the bracket 10 is provided'with anelongated opening-11 to receive screws or na1ls' used for securing thebracket to the wall :or' other" support. Neareach of its ends andextending horizonpivot-rod 13, v on which the socket-pieces 14 aremounted. Each of the socket-pieces 1 1 is rectangular in cross-sectionin its portion adjacent to the bracket 10 and has forwardly anddownwardly inclined side pieces 15, located in parallelism with oneanother, as is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. Each ofthe socket-pieces 14 has a portion of its bottom removed, thus leavingan open space 16 between the transverse portions 17 and 18, whichcomprise the bottom of each of said socket-pieces. The inner or rearedge of each of the transverse portions 18 is formed with a recess 19 toreceive a headed projection 20 on each of the supporting-arms 21, whichare preferably made of wood and are rectangular in shape to correspondwith the shape of the socket-pieces within which they are adapted tofit. The inner end of each of the arms 21 is provided with a verticalslot 22 to receive and engage the pintle or pivot-rod 13, which togetherwith the projection 20 will afiord means for securely holding or lookingthe arms 21 in position.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawings it will be seen andreadily understood that the pintle or rod 13 is passed through suitableopenings in the upper and lower portion of each of the socket-pieces andthrough an opening in the upper lug 12 of the bracket and into anopening in the lower lug of said bracket, thus pivotally securing thesocket-pieces one above another in such a manner as to enable them to beturned on the rod 13 to any desired angle.

It will be observed that the inner lower portion of each of the arms 21is slightly tally and forwardly therefrom the bracket is provided with alug 12, each of Whiclris formed with an opening to receive a pintleor 5rounded and that the inner end of each of said arms is provided with avertical slot 22 to stride or receive the rod 13 when said arms areinserted in their respective socket-pieces. By rounding the lowerportion of each of the arms it is apparent that it may be more easilyplaced in position than if it had a right-angled end, which constructionwould strike the front edge of the transverse portion 17 of thesocket-piece, whereas by rounding the lower portion of the arm it willslide thereover, thus permitting the headed projection 20 to enter theslot 19 when the arm may be moved slightly forward, so that the head ofthe projection 2Q will engage the sides of the slot and the arm will befirmly held in position, yet in such a manner that it may be easilyremoved when desired.

It is apparent that the slot 22 in each of the arms should be longenough to permit the projections 20 to pass the inner edges of thehorizontal transverse portions 18 when the arms have been pressedinwardly, so that the rod 13 will rest'at the limit of the slots 22therein, after which the arms may be moved slightly forward to cause theprojections 20 to engage the slots 19 in said transverse portions.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a cl0thesdrier, the combination with a supporting-bracket having neareach of its ends a forwardly-extending apertured lu of a pivot-rodvertically mounted on said lugs and in said openings, a series ofrectangularshaped socket-pieces having openings in the top and bottom oftheir inner portions to receive' said rod and loosely mounted thereonone above the other, each of said socketpieces having adownwardly-inclined forward extension and provided with an opening inits bottom and a recessed horizontal transverse portion near its frontend, a series of suspending-arms adapted to fit in said socketpieces andeach having in its inner end a vertical slot to receive said rod and onits lower surface a headed projection to engage the recess in thehorizontal part of its socket-piece to prevent the forward movement ofthe arm thereby holding its inner end in contact with the upperhorizontal portion of its socket-piece, substantially as described.

CHARLES NOBLE.

